us_un_resolutions_veto_list_read_this dB I don't post on blather much these days, unless there is something to point out. The US has been accused of human rights abuses for economic gain, or for witholding aid fore economic reasons... and for LOTS of other actions that should be crimes. One place people forgot to looks was the UN. So here we have a list of resolutions and drafts that the US have VETOED (as in people voted for these to be put in place and the US VETOED it killing it where it stood. USA's 30 Years of UN Vetoes Year - Resolution Vetoed by the USA 1972 Condemns Israel for killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air raids. 1973 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians and calls on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. 1976 Condemns Israel for attacking Lebanese civilians. 1976 Condemns Israel for building settlements in the occupied territories. 1976 Calls for self determination for the Palestinians. 1976 Afirms the rights of the Palestinians. 1978 Urges the permanent members (USA, USSR, UK, France, China) to insure United Nations decisions on the maintenance of international peace and security. 1978 Criticises the living conditions of the Palestinians. 1978 Condemns the Israeli human rights record in occupied territories. 1978 Calls for developed countries to increase the quantity and quality of development assistance to underdeveloped countries. 1979 Calls for an end to all military and nuclear collaboration with the apartheid South Africa. 1979 Strengthens the arms embargo against South Africa. 1979 Offers assistance to all the oppressed people of South Africa and their liberation movement. 1979 Concerns negotiations on disarmament and cessation of the nuclear arms race. 1979 Calls for the return of all inhabitants expelled by Israel. 1979 Demands that Israel desist from human rights violations. 1979 Requests a report on the living conditions of Palestinians in occupied Arab countries. 1979 Offers assistance to the Palestinian people. 1979 Discusses sovereignty over national resources in occupied Arab territories. 1979 Calls for protection of developing counties' exports. 1979 Calls for alternative approaches within the United Nations system for improving the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms. 1979 Opposes support for intervention in the internal or external affairs of states. 1979 For a United Nations Conference on Women. 1979 To include Palestinian women in the United Nations Conference on Women. 1979 Safeguards rights of developing countries in multinational trade negotiations. 1980 Requests Israel to return displaced persons. 1980 Condemns Israeli policy regarding the living conditions of the Palestinian people. 1980 Condemns Israeli human rights practices in occupied territories. 3 resolutions. 1980 Afirms the right of self determination for the Palestinians. 1980 Offers assistance to the oppressed people of South Africa and their national liberation movement. 1980 Attempts to establish a New International Economic Order to promote the growth of underdeveloped countries and international economic co-operation. 1980 Endorses the Program of Action for Second Half of United Nations Decade for Women. 1980 Declaration of non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. 1980 Emphasises that the development of nations and individuals is a human right. 1980 Calls for the cessation of all nuclear test explosions. 1980 Calls for the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. 1981 Promotes co-operative movements in developing countries. 1981 Affirms the right of every state to choose its economic and social system in accord with the will of its people, without outside interference in whatever form it takes. 1981 Condemns activities of foreign economic interests in colonial territories. 1981 Calls for the cessation of all test explosions of nuclear weapons. 1981 Calls for action in support of measures to prevent nuclear war, curb the arms race and promote disarmament. 1981 Urges negotiations on prohibition of chemical and biological weapons. 1981 Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development, etc are human rights. 1981 Condemns South Africa for attacks on neighbouring states, condemns apartheid and attempts to strengthen sanctions. 7 resolutions. 1981 Condemns an attempted coup by South Africa on the Seychelles. 1981 Condemns Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, human rights policies, and the bombing of Iraq. 18 resolutions. 1982 Condemns the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. 6 resolutions (1982 to 1983). 1982 Condemns the shooting of 11 Muslims at a shrine in Jerusalem by an Israeli soldier. 1982 Calls on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights occupied in 1967. 1982 Condemns apartheid and calls for the cessation of economic aid to South Africa. 4 resolutions. 1982 Calls for the setting up of a World Charter for the protection of the ecology. 1982 Sets up a United Nations conference on succession of states in respect to state property, archives and debts. 1982 Nuclear test bans and negotiations and nuclear free outer space. 3 resolutions. 1982 Supports a new world information and communications order. 1982 Prohibition of chemical and bacteriological weapons. 1982 Development of international law. 1982 Protects against products harmful to health and the environment . 1982 Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development are human rights. 1982 Protects against products harmful to health and the environment. 1982 Development of the energy resources of developing countries. 1983 Resolutions about apartheid, nuclear arms, economics, and international law. 15 resolutions. 1984 Condemns support of South Africa in its Namibian and other policies. 1984 International action to eliminate apartheid. 1984 Condemns Israel for occupying and attacking southern Lebanon. 1984 Resolutions about apartheid, nuclear arms, economics, and international law. 18 resolutions. 1985 Condemns Israel for occupying and attacking southern Lebanon. 1985 Condemns Israel for using excessive force in the occupied territories. 1985 Resolutions about cooperation, human rights, trade and development. 3 resolutions. 1985 Measures to be taken against Nazi, Fascist and neo-Fascist activities . 1986 Calls on all governments (including the USA) to observe international law. 1986 Imposes economic and military sanctions against South Africa. 1986 Condemns Israel for its actions against Lebanese civilians. 1986 Calls on Israel to respect Muslim holy places. 1986 Condemns Israel for sky-jacking a Libyan airliner. 1986 Resolutions about cooperation, security, human rights, trade, media bias, the environment and development. 8 resolutions. 1987 Calls on Israel to abide by the Geneva Conventions in its treatment of the Palestinians. 1987 Calls on Israel to stop deporting Palestinians. 1987 Condemns Israel for its actions in Lebanon. 2 resolutions. 1987 Calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. 1987 Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States. 1987 Calls for compliance in the International Court of Justice concerning military and paramilitary activities against Nicaragua and a call to end the trade embargo against Nicaragua. 2 resolutions. 1987 Measures to prevent international terrorism, study the underlying political and economic causes of terrorism, convene a conference to define terrorism and to differentiate it from the struggle of people from national liberation. 1987 Resolutions concerning journalism, international debt and trade. 3 resolutions. 1987 Opposition to the build up of weapons in space. 1987 Opposition to the development of new weapons of mass destruction. 1987 Opposition to nuclear testing. 2 resolutions. 1987 Proposal to set up South Atlantic "Zone of Peace". 1988 Condemns Israeli practices against Palestinians in the occupied territories. 5 resolutions (1988 and 1989). 1989 Condemns USA invasion of Panama. 1989 Condemns USA troops for ransacking the residence of the Nicaraguan ambassador in Panama. 1989 Condemns USA support for the Contra army in Nicaragua. 1989 Condemns illegal USA embargo of Nicaragua. 1989 Opposing the acquisition of territory by force. 1989 Calling for a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict based on earlier UN resoltions. 1990 To send three UN Security Council observers to the occupied territories. 1995 Afirms that land in East Jerusalem annexed by Israel is occupied territory. 1997 Calls on Israel to cease building settlements in East Jerusalem and other occupied territories. 2 resolutions. 1999 Calls on the USA to end its trade embargo on Cuba. 8 resolutions (1992 to 1999). 2001 To send unarmed monitors to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 2001 To set up the International Criminal Court. 2002 To renew the peace keeping mission in Bosnia. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET AWAY WITH IT. EVEN IF IT'S YOUR GOVERNMENT DOING IT, YOU SHOULS BE AWARE AND TRY TO STOP IT. MOST OF THE PROBLEM WITH THE STATES IN WORLD AFFAIRS IS THAT THE POEPLE STOPPED CARING AFTER 1947. 030323 ... wingedSerpent / birdmad it's easy enough to say "try to stop it" but you make it sound as if no one is trying or has ever tried As if to suggest that EVERY american has just tacitly decided to play Vichy to Washington's Reich For decades, if you were any sort of dissident here, the FBI was as much to be feared here in the US as any foreign secret police organization. Ever heard of J. Edgar Hoover? Nasty bastard, kept secret files on a lot of high and low profile people, managed to remain in power as the head of the FBI through several administrations. If you were perceived as a big enough threat, some apparatus of the FBI would either concoct a nice public scandal to discredit you or arrange to have you accused of a crime long enough that you would be discredited. Now, in this time frame that the marketing people refer to as the Information Age, we have the media conglomerates who all seem to own a stake in government (Rupert Murdoch, anyone?) who can act in ways the FBI no longer can. Somebody making too much noise? Easy, dig up the skeletons they might have in their closet and trot them out on the evening news and plaster it all over the newspapers. Oh, it turns out it wasn't true, hey no problem, we're sorry, but we won't apologize half as loudly as we screamed to kill your credibility, so we still win. Sue us, yeah, you can do it, you might even win, but it won't put a big enough dent in us to kill us and you're credibility with the public is still shot. You've got to figure, dB, in a country that may well have the greatest propaganda machine in the world that, while there may be some who've got their waders on and their bullshit filters on high, it's easier for most people to just sit back and absorb it, to lap it up like hummingbirds at a feeder. Most people in my neighborhood, for example, are too busy trying to make ends meet to worry about the world outside of the circuit they travel from home to work and back again. (This is to say nothing of the fact that many of my neighbors are probably not u.s citizens either and would be putting their residency at risk if they took too public a stand against something like the current example of cluster-fucked foreign policy as the current situation) That i have the time, energy or resources to be informed or ever choose take any course of action is a luxury on my part. For all the ideas i might have, i could never run for office or become too much of a loud voice for the causes i believe in because i know that some how or some way, my closet and its cemetery full of skeletons would be used to discredit me. 030323 ... dB So what you are saying birdmad, is that the US government is crushing it's own people to stop them from trying anything, while running around making decisions that the people can't argue or do anything about. In a democracy the government is supposed to be an informed voice of the people, not a sneaky secretive backdoor agency that never talks to the people. AMERICA IS SET UP WRONGLY. This isn't the peoples fault, they've had the wool pulled over there eyes. But if you can't convince, let's say at least one million americans to march to capitol hill and tear it down then not only is there something wrong with america, there is something wrong with americans. It's not that they don't have the time, man, it's because they don't have the will. Even the american guys living here say that when away from the states for a while world issues become more accessible and generally easier to digest. 030323 ... minnesota_chris dB, our media IS screwed up, and so its really hard to get insightful analysis about the world (and really easy to read about sex and explosions, BOOM!) Our media only half-pretends to care about informing the public, they are always watching their revenue instead. So, most people at church even believe that this war will promote democracy, since that's what Bush told them, and our media hasn't looked at that statement critically. I hope they're right, but when I think about it, I can't think of anything Bush has done for democracy, or Arabs. We do have an anti-intellectual bias in America, too, so most people really aren't interested in digging deep into issues. I'm a public school teaching revolutionary, wish me luck. 030323 ... dB much luck to you. 030323 ... marked . 040117 what's it to you? who go blather from